American teenager Natalee Holloway was killed after falling off a balcony at a friend’s home after drinking whisky and taking cocaine, main suspect Joran van der Sloot is reported as saying in a German tv interview.

The Telegraaf, which has seen the 2.5 hour interview, says an emotional Van der Sloot made the confession in a hotel room in Dusseldorf.
Former police chief Gerard Dompig, who was involved in the initial investigation into Holloway’s disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba in May 2005, says he believes the claim is worth further investigation.
Van der Sloot’s new story fits with the time line and is very specific on the details, he told the Telegraaf.
Aruban officials have already dismissed the new statement as ‘fantasy and lies’.
Whisky
In the statement, Van der Sloot says he, Natalee and another friend went to the friend’s house where they took cocaine and drunk whisky.
Natalee climbed on to the edge of the balcony, he said. ‘I think she was really drunk, so she started doing a sort of half strip tease, like she did on stage at Carls & Charlies,’ he said.
‘I walked to her to dance with her a bit, and I held her hips and when I let go she fell over the balcony.’
When the two ran down stairs, they found Natalee on the ground with a lot of blood. ‘I think she hit the ground with her head first,’ he is quoted as saying.
The two young men then put the body in a car and hid it in a swamp where he lost a shoe, he claims.
Alibi
The other youth has been given an alibi by his mother, the Telegraaf reports.
The new confession will be broadcast on RTL5 on Sunday night.
In 2008, Dutch tv crime journalist Peter R. de Vries claimed he had solved the mystery surrounding the girl’s disappearance using a plant and a hidden camera.
During the programme, Van der Sloot told the plant, who was working for De Vries, that the girl was completely drunk and died while they were on the beach. Her body, he said, was dumped at sea.